Compare suites available through volume licensing

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If you need to purchase five or more licenses, Microsoft Office offers three suites that are available through volume licensing—Office Professional Plus 2016, Office Standard 2016, and Office Standard 2016 for Mac.
If you need fewer than five licenses, see the
comparison page
for other Office suites. We also offer
Office 365 Business
and
Office 365 ProPlus,
a subscription service that gives you the latest version of Office plus cloud services like file sharing and storage. If you want an always-up-to-date version of Office you can access anywhere and productivity services that you can deploy and manage the way you want,
consider Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus.

The following table illustrates the different applications in the three Office suites available through volume licensing and their enterprise value. The suites also differ in the level of integration with related business productivity servers.

Create and edit Word, OneNote, PowerPoint, and Excel documents from a browser.

Access

Quickly create business value with browser-based apps.

Skype for Business

Be more productive by communicating and collaborating easily with others in different locations.

Enterprise value

Group policy

Volume activation

Terminal service

App telemetry

Compliance and archiving

Archive email right from Outlook—no .pst files needed—and set retention policies that automatically archive or delete email. IT admins can centrally manage the In-Place Archive and eDiscovery.
Prevent loss of sensitive data via email with Outlook Policy Tips and Exchange Data Loss Prevention. Scan spreadsheets for errors and inconsistencies with Inquire in Excel, and view audit trails with Spreadsheet Compare.

Business intelligence

Streamline integration and manipulation of large volumes of data from various sources and perform rapid analysis using Power Pivot native in Excel. Explore different cuts and views of data in a click in a pivot table or pivot chart.
Compile data, charts, and graphs into a single, interactive Power View.

Enterprise voice

Place voice calls using the Lync client or Skype for Business client, initiate a call from the contact list by typing a name or number, or use a dial pad to initiate PSTN calls.
Easily switch a call between devices, park calls, access voicemail from the Lync client or Skype for Business client, and use Enterprise Voice features under VDI.

Easily communicate with others in different locations or time zones using familiar Office tools and Skype for Business.

Collaboration

Increase collaboration and improve team productivity with site mailboxes. Access project-related email in Exchange and documents in SharePoint, all from within Outlook, with access restricted to team members who have the right permissions.